RHEL 7 : compat-libtiff3 (RHSA-2019:2051)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 127660

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for compat-libtiff3.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2019:2051 advisory.

- libtiff: NULL pointer dereference in tif_print.c:TIFFPrintDirectory() causes a denial of service (CVE-2018-7456)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the RHEL compat-libtiff3 package based on the guidance in RHSA-2019:2051.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?45ed09ee

http://www.nessus.org/u?96f7400d

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2051

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#low

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1556708

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 127660

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2019-2051.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/12/2019

Updated: 5/6/2024

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-7456

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:compat-libtiff3, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/6/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/24/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-7456

CWE: 476

RHSA: 2019:2051